Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as the issues of English law are concerned , it is , as Mr. Beazley fairly recognised , almost inevitable that these cases , in view of the very difficult legal problems and of the very large sums of money at stake , will , unless settled , proceed in the end , as did the Hazell case , to the highest court ; thus even if there was a prospect of irreconcilable decisions at first instance or on intermediate appeal , which I do not think is likely , the final arbiters in the House of Lords will be able to give one single decision which will be binding in both England and Scotland , and with no possibility of irreconcilability . |
| 2 | An impression has undoubtedly gained ground — which I do not think is fair to the Wolfenden Committee — that the Committee desired to legalise homosexual conduct . |
| 3 | Finally , although your readers will not doubt be aware the 2807 and 4277 share the same wheel arrangement and the same wheel diameter ( 4′8½″ on the driving wheels ) the rod sizes are different . |
| 4 | The one thing you should not do is waste money and risk your fish 's health by treating the tank with chemicals — there is no point unless you know what you are treating . |
| 5 | The result is that it is very complex ; in addition , I must note that quite a few words are given stress patterns that I do not feel are acceptable in present-day English . |
| 6 | To rush in and quantify a situation which one does not understand is wasteful of the time of both researchers and informants . |
| 7 | Claudia could see that locking up a Masai for a crime he did not understand was cruel and inhuman . |
| 8 | George did not like being firm with Lennie but he knew that he had to be cruel to be kind . |
| 9 | Israelis , used to instant retaliation , do not like being sitting ducks . |
| 10 | The USA , which well within the memory of the majority of its inhabitants , was the world 's leading oil supplier , does not like being dependent on imported oil , particularly oil imported from areas of the world where political unrest means that a loss of supply — for instance through a closure of the Strait of Hormuz — is always a possibility . |
| 11 | Is not used to and does not like being dependent on others . |
| 12 | Similarly , health and safety legislation can be designed to protect workers from agreeing to work in conditions which they do not realize are unsafe . |
| 13 | The other thing you can not mark is compact discs |
| 14 | Both establishments had open fronts so that conditions for employees could not have been pleasant during the winter months . |
| 15 | They watched a woman , who could not have been long in this country , testing a mango for ripeness : she felt it all over with her thumb , not looking at it , concentrated , unsmiling , until the stall holder , ever-vigilant , caught sight of her . |
| 16 | It can not have been long , however , before the painting began to undergo a series of striking changes . |
| 17 | Yet he could not have been long in the water . |
| 18 | Once again , because the needs of each group in the departments varied considerably it would not have been cost-effective to consider a general global use of DIP systems . |
| 19 | However , post-war , the rise in divorce rates and remarriage , peaking in the 1970s , means that we shall in future meet more old people whose relationships may not have been lifelong . |
| 20 | It would not have been necessary otherwise to insert an advertisement like this in the New Yorker : |
| 21 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |
| 22 | In earlier days , even that formality might not have been necessary for a contract . |
| 23 | Had that been so , it would not have been necessary for his contract to include a statement that , ‘ the Company will bear the entire cost of servicing , repairing , maintaining , taxing and insuring the said motor car ’ . |
| 24 | But it may all not have been necessary . |
| 25 | Information on varieties of stone was given in the duplicated project booklet which the children received at the start of their work , but with some children this would not have been necessary had the school library resource centre contained suitable information in an easily discovered form . |
| 26 | The phrase ‘ surgical , medical or dental treatment ’ is evidently used in a fairly narrow sense : otherwise it would not have been necessary for Parliament to provide , by section 8(2) , that the expression includes diagnostic procedures , and ancillary procedures such as the administration of an anaesthetic . |
| 27 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 28 | no , the brochure would not necessary have been out of date , it depended when the first occupation was , if er the first occupation was in July or August it may not have been necessary to update the brochure on Sept on the first of September |
| 29 | It is consistent with Lord Alverstone C.J. 's remarks at p. 395 , cited above , that if she had not done so , i.e. , if the transaction had not been properly explained to her , the security would not have been enforceable . |
| 30 | Though the prestige of Aldfrith 's descent from the Uí Néill will not have been negligible , he was born out of wedlock and there must have been many legitimate sons of other Northumbrian lords who claimed descent from Ida . |